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By Prafulla Das
BHUBANESWAR, MAY 13. The ruling Biju Janata Dal-Bharatiya Janata Party alliance in Orissa bagged as many as 18 of the 21 Lok Sabha seats in the State. The alliance won 19 seats in 1999. The Congress won two seats — Koraput and Berhampur — and lost the Dhenkanal seat from where the former Union Minister, K.P. Singh Deo, had won last time. The former Chief Minister, Nandini Satpathy's son and BJD nominee, Tathagat Satpathy, defeated Mr. Singh Deo. The Jharkhand Mukti Morcha, an ally of the Congress, bagged the Mayurbhanj seat. The JMM nominee, Sudam Marandi, defeated the BJP candidate, Bhagirathi Majhi. The BJD had contested from 12 seats and the BJP nine. The BJD improved its performance by winning 11 seats, as against 10 in 1999. The BJP won seven seats, as against nine last time. The two seats that the BJP lost are Berhampur and Mayurbhanj. There was jubilation in the BJD headquarters, but the BJP workers were silent.
The former Chief Minister, Giridhar Gamang, of the Congress won from Koraput for the record ninth time.
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